When Corbynista Jared O’Mara MP resigned from the Labour Party last July following an embarrassing and drawn out scandal, it was assumed that we’d heard the last of him. He had been a liability to Labour, but as an independent MP, it was thought that the opportunities to disgrace himself would be few and far between.

To hold on to his circa £80,000 a year salary for the rest of the parliamentary term, all he had to do was keep his head down, delegate casework to his staff, and turn up once a fortnight to constituency surgeries. Sadly for the people of Sheffield Hallam, he hasn’t managed it.